NASA Glenn's Propulsion Systems Lab, an altitude engine test facility, was outfitted with a spray system to generate ice crystals in 2011. Turbine engines and driven rigs can experience ice crystal icing at flight altitudes, temperatures and Mach numbers. To support these tests, four ice crystal characterizations have been conducted in two different facility configurations. In addition, super-cooled liquid and mixed phase clouds have also been generated. This paper represents a work in progress. It will describe some of the 11-parameter calibration space, and how those parameters interact with each other, the instrumentation used to characterize the cloud and present a sample of the cloud characterization results.


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    Title :

    Update on the NASA Glenn Propulsion Systems Lab Ice Crystal Cloud Characterization (2015, 2016)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA AVIATION 2016) ; 2016 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-06-13


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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